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Cake day: November 1st, 2024

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  • Yeah I agree on both sides. His son is an adult now and still lives a life much like his dad. It’s too bad he was raised in that situation. When I call him a friend, he’s really just one of the few high school friends I’ve kept in touch with. We live far from each other but we say hi online a couple times a year and we had lunch together about a year ago when I was in California for a wedding.


  • I have a friend who chose it. Had a job with early retirement pension, was buying a house he could afford. They made a minor adjustment to his contract and he snapped, quit the job, abandoned the mortgage and let the house go back to the bank, and took his son and moved to California to live in his car. Ten years later he’s still doing that. He works occasionally as a delivery driver when he feels like it.


  • I never say it to my wife (I think people should utilize a filter between their thoughts and their lips, but my mom doesn’t have a filter either) but I often catch a glimpse of my wife’s glasses showing just a touch below her nose when looking from a particular angle, and I think she has snot starting to drip from her nose.

    Also I hate the modern American version of female beauty. But my wife doesn’t even wear makeup so I’m happy at home.







  • It’s automatic garage door culture. You pull up to your house and hit the garage open button and when you leave it’s the same, you just drive away and never see anyone, you close your garage remotely and you’re gone. Maybe if you do your own lawn care you’ll see neighbors but many people hire lawn care professionals. I don’t have a garage to park in. But my wife likes to do the lawn care. So I’m only outside while walking to or from my car. My wife hates the cold so snow shoveling is on me. I’m about to be shoveling more in five minutes :)



  • This is it. As long as I can remember in the US, the winning party (winning with 23.7% of the eligible voters approval vs 22.9% on the other side) have always essentially said, “suck it losers!” and done as much as they can of what the other party hates. It’s tyranny of the majority and why the US has a constitutional Republic framework to limit that tyranny, however ineffective it may be. Never has a party come into power and said, “let’s make sure we also represent the will of the millions of voters who voted the other way.”



  • This is why people moved en masse to suburbs. You go to your car and drive away, rarely even see a neighbor. I’ve spoken to a neighbor once in the last year and it was because we were both shoveling snow (it was yesterday). We shoveled for an hour in silence but we kept getting closer to the street (she’s across the street). At some point we were only about 20 feet from each other and the silence was awkward. At least it was just a 30 second convo.